Calvin Anderson Wins Fifth World Series of Poker Bracelet

Calvin Anderson took down the 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 eight-game championship, besting a tricky area of 189 entries to earn his fifth profession gold bracelet and the highest prize of $413,446.

Anderson grew to become simply the forty first participant in WSOP historical past to have received 5 or extra bracelets. The victory was apparently significantly particular for Anderson, given the format which incorporates eight of the preferred variants of poker.

“You’re playing a bunch of different games against all of the top players, I played against tons of really, really good players along the way. I ran good but I think I played really well too, there’s a lot of spots where I’m super happy with the way that I played. Feels good to do all of the things right,” Anderson advised WSOP reporters.

This was the third-largest rating of Anderson’s profession. It elevated his lifetime earnings to almost $7.2 million.

In addition to the {hardware} and the cash, Anderson was additionally awarded a lot of rankings factors for this win. The 840 Card Player Player of the Year factors he secured had been sufficient to see him climb to 69th place within the 2024 standings, that are introduced by Global Poker. This was his fourth POY-qualified rating of the 12 months, and first title. He additionally earned 413 PokerGO Tour factors. With 1,085 earned to date, he now sits in eleventh place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.

This event performed out over the course of three days on the outskirts of the 2024 WSOP foremost occasion. The 189-entry turnout constructed a prize pool of $1,757,700 that was paid out among the many prime 29 finishers. Among those who ran deep had been two-time bracelet winner Chris Brewer (sixteenth) and Maxx Coleman (thirteenth), bracelet winner Danny Wong (twelfth), five-time bracelet winners Adam Friedman (eleventh) and Yuri Dzivielevski (tenth), bracelet winner Maksim Pisarenko (ninth), bracelet winner and three-time World Poker Tour champion Gus Hansen (eighth), and bracelet winner Andres Korn (seventh).

The closing desk included the likes of two-time bracelet winner Tom Koral (sixth – $66,353), poker triple crown winner Mike Watson (4th – $126,780), and bracelet winner Ali Eslami (third – $182,938).

Japan’s Dai Ishibashi earned a career-best payday of $271,351 because the runner-up.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:

Photo credit score: PokerGO / Enrique Malfavon.